Garment hanger



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GARMENT HANGER Application filed September 15, 1922. Serial a...588,819.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SENA MAE WARD and EUNICE S. SUTTON, citizens of theUnited States, and residents, respectively,'of New York city, in thecounties of Bronx and New York and State of New York,ihave inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Garment Hangers, of which thefollowing is a specification. I

This invention relates to garment hangers, and more particularly to aladies dress hanger of the type shown in our Patent No.

A 1,420,890 of June-27, 1922; and has special reference to the provisionof a hanger of this typeconvertible for use with different kinds ofladies"garments.

A primedesideratum of our present invention comprehends the provision ofgarment hanger for supporting ladies full dresses such as evening gownswith theattached waist and skirt portions of the dress or gown supportedin an eflicient manner,

the hanger being constructed 'so as to be changeable or convertible forhanging other ladies garments such as detached skirts and waists andladies suits.

As disclosed in the aforementioned patent, the improved garment hangerhas special applicability to the supporting of ladies" dresses and moreparticularly those which compriscattached waist and skirt portions,

the dresses being so supported or hung as to minimize or eliminate thedistorting strains or stresses upon the waist due to the weight of theskirt with the waist and skirt hung to assume their natural shape asintended for wear. In the use of these garment hangers theattached'waist' and skirt portions of a dresssuch as a ladys eveninggown are independently supported by spaced garment hanging members sothat the distorting pulls'of the relatively massive skirt portion, whichis usually made of such relatively heavy material as serge or jerseysilk often further weighted as by being beaded. or provided withspangles, is relieved from the relatively light waist por tion of thedress which is usually made of a relatively frail materialsuch as silk,satin or chiffon; the said garment hanging members being spaced so thatboth the skirt and waist portions are supported or suspended to assumethe natural folds as intended for wear by the user. By our presentinvention .we propose to provide a hanger of this type in which theattached skirt and waist por-' tions of a dress may be supported in asimilar manner 'withthe garment hanger constructed so as tobeconvertible or changeable for interchangeably-hanging other garmentssuch as detached or independent skirts and waists or coats and skirts ofladies suits, the han er being. thus adaptable to different nee s orrequirements of service. 1

' The prmcipal objects of our present inventlon may'therefore be said toinclude,- bes1desthe provision of a garment hanger hav mg thecharacteristics and capable of the uses above referred to; the fiirtherprovision of a garment'hanger in which is provided an invertible Igarment supporting device provided with erect-and inverted sides or eends adapted for jhan'gihg differentf kinds of' garments when moved toerect or inverted 1'75 ment hanger in which are provided upperpositions; the further. provision 'of -a garand lower garmenthangingmembers forhanging or suspending the upper and lower portions of agarment, with the construction such that the upper garment hangingmember comprises an invertible device adapted for interchangeablyhangingdifi'erent upper garments; and the still further provision of agarment hanger ofthis nature which is constructed to be quickly and easly adapted or converted as desired by the user.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing waist member B suspendedl ycarried there'- Fig. '2 is a e'rspective view of our hanger to thedistance between the shoul or an waist line of the human body, theconstruction and spacing being such that the skirt and waist portions 10and 11 of the .dress ma be hung to assume and hold the form an shape asintended and desired-for wear by the user.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the upper or shoulder member A may comprise apreferably flat garment supporting member fashioned out of wood andprovided with a substantially horizontal upper garment supporting face12 for receiving the spaced straps or yoke members 13' of the waist andthe opposite upturned ortions 14 for effectively retaining the sai strapor yoke members against outward movement and slipping from the shouldermember. The waist member B ma comprise a wire or similar frame bent intothe confi ration shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and inclu ing the horizontalwaist portion 15 provided with the spaced hooks or loops 16 intended forreceiving skirt hangingelements such as the loop portions 17 sewed orotherwise attached to the skirt 11 and the integral side portions 18,the said side portions terminating in the inturned integral studportions 19 received in sockets 20 in the opposite ends of the upper orshoulder member A.

As 'hereinbefore referred to, a desideratum of the present inventioncomprehends the construction of a garment hanger which is adaptable orconvertible for supporting or suspending other ladies garments such asdetached waists and skirts and ladies suits, and to this end the uppergarment hanging member A of our present invention comprises aninvertible member movable from an erect position as shown in Fig. 1 ofthe drawings to an inverted po-- sition as shown in Fig.2 of thedrawings, the garment hanger being intended for supporting one kind ofgarment in the erect position and for supportingother kinds of garmentsin the inverted position. In the inverted position the garment hanginmember A is adapted for supporting or example the coatand skirt of aladys suit, the inverted side of the upper garment hanging member Acomprising to this end a supporting form for fitting a ladys coat or afull waist, the said inverted side being suitably contoured as shown at21 for fittingly receiving the coat 22 of a ladys suit. The skirt of thesuit may be suspended from the hooks or loops 16 of the lower garmentsupporting member B as shown in Fig. By suspending the lower garmenthanging member B from the upper hanging member A by means of the studand socket conne2tions 19 and 20, it will be seen that a pivotal orswivel connection is afforded and that the upper member A may beinverted for adapting the garment hanger to its different uses withoutchanging the position of the lower garment hanging member, the lower orwaist member B cooperating with the upper or shoulder member A in eitherof the erect or inverted positions of the latter. 1

For the purpose of supporting the garment hanger in either its erect orinverted positions, there is provided the supporting ook 23 which maycomprise the parallel hook strands 23' and 23 rotatably mounted in theshoulder member A and connected by a transverse portion 24 threadedthrough an aperture 25 in the body of the said shoul-- der member, theconstruction being such that the hook 23 may be moved to the erectposition shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings with the shoulder memberA in either the erect or inverted positions. For the purpose ofretaining the hook 23 in a stable erect condition in either ofitspositions, we may provide the hook retaining members 26 and 27 at theupper and lower sides of the garment hanging member A, the said hookretaining members each preferably comprising a grooved element forseating the strands 23 and 23 of the hook in the desired erect position.

' In Figs. 3 and 4 we show a modification of the invention in which thelower garment supporting means B comprises the flexible pendants 28 and29 suspendedly carried by the upper or shoulder member A, the saidpendants preferably comprising spacedly arranged cord or tape lengthsthreaded through apertures 30 and 31 in the shoulder member A, thedoubled strands of the pendants terminating in the waist f line or skirtsecuring elements 32 and 33.

including the substantially horizontal supporting face 12' and thespaced upturned yoke retaining portions 14' for suspending the eveningwaist 10 as shown in Fig. 3, and the inverted side including theshoulder form 21 for fitting the shoulder of a full waist or coat 22' ofa ladys suit. As will be apparent from a consideration of the drawings,the pendants 28 and 29 are reversible relatively to the shoulder'memherA, the attachment of the pendants to the shoulder member being such thatthe pendants will assume the suspended condition with the shouldermember arranged in either its erect or inverted position. In themodification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the supporting hook may comprisethe oppositely curved hook portions 34 'and 35 and a connecting straightportion 36, the hook 34 being intended for supporting the hanger inerect position and the hook 35 being intended for supporting the same ininverted position as clearly appears from a consideration of Figs. 3 and4 of the drawings.

The manner of making and using our improved garment hanger will in themain be apparent from the above detailed description thereof. It. willbe apparent that the upper or shoulder member A or A of the garmenthanger may be inverted with facility and ease for adapting the same tothe variety of needs met with in service, the said upper membercooperating with the lower garment supporting means B or B so thateither attached or detached portions of a ladys dress or suit may besupported in an eflicient manner.

While we have shown our device in the preferred forms, it will beobvious that many changes and modifications may be made in the structuredisclosed without departing from the spirit of the invention, defined inthe following claims.

We claim:

1. A garment hanger comprising an upper member for supporting an uppergar ment and a lower member for supporting a lower garment suspendedtherefrom, the upper member comprlsing a convertible gar ment supportingdevice provided with different garment han 'ng means at its erect andinverted sides or supportin difierent upper garments upon inversion othe same.

2. A garment hanger comprising an upper member for supporting an uppergarment and a lower member for supporting a lower garment suspendedtherefrom, the up-, per member comprising a garment supporting bodyhaving erect and inverted sides differently contoured for selectivelyhanging difi'erent type garments upon inversion of the same.

A garment hanger comprising a structure providing an upper garmentsupporting member and a lower garment supporting member, the saidmembers being spaced a distance corresponding to the distance betweenthe shoulder and waist line of the human body, the upper memberincluding a convertible garment supporting device provided withdifferent garment hangin means at its erect and inverted sides adaptedupon inversion for hanging different upper garments whereby attachedparts of a dress may be independently supported by the said members withthe upper member in erect position, and independent or detached parts ofa dress may be supported by the said members with the said upper memberin inverted position.

4. A garment hanger comprising a garment supporting member forsupporting an upper garment such as a waist,and a plurality of spacedpendants suspended therefrom, each of the said pendants being providedwith means for attachment to a lower garment such as a skirt, the saidupper member comprising a convertible garment supporting device providedwith difi'erent garment hanging means at its erect and inverted sides.

5. A garment hanger comprising a garment supporting member forsupporting an upper garment such as a waist, and a plurality of spacedpendants suspended therefrom, each of the said pendants being providedwith means for attachment to a lower garment such as a skirt, said meansbeing spaced from the said member a distance equivalent to the distancebetween the shoulder and waist line of the human body, the said uppermember comprising a convertible garment supporting device provided withdifferent garment hanging means at its erect and inverted sides.

6. A garment hanger comprising an invertible garment supporting bodyhaving its erect and inverted sides diflferently contoured forselectively hanging different type upper garments upon inversion of thesame, and a lurality of spaced flexible pendants suspen ed from the saidbody and adapted for supporting a lowergarment, the said pendants being..reversible relatively to the said-body whereby the pendants areadapted to support a lower garment with the garment supporting body ineither its erect or inverted positions.

Signed at New York city in the county of New York and State of New York,this 12th day of September, A. D. 1922.

I SENA MAE WARD.

EUNIGE S. SUTTON.

